- 01/31 Cosě Fan Tutte
- 01/27 Nicholas Daniel to receive Queen’s Medal
- 01/20 Violin Masters on Parade
- 01/17 Gustav Leonhardt
- 01/14 Decoding Strauss
- 01/11 Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra
- 01/06 NYO - Daniel
- 01/03 Stradivarius v modern violins
- 12/25 Young Artists Play With Stars
- 12/21 WCPE’s “My Life in Music”
- 12/16 An Act of Dissent
- 12/09 Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New
- 12/06 Heras-Casado Named Principal Conductor
- 12/03 Orpheus in the Underworld; La traviata - reviews
- 11/28 Stradivarius violin 'replicated'
- 11/27 Review of Tosca
- 11/21 Nippert Gift cited - CSO
- 11/14 Mozartfest – review
- 11/09 Beethoven and Eliot, Missed Connections
- 11/03 Pianomania - Review
- 11/01 Titans Clash Over Cadenza
- 10/31 Bartok at Home
- 10/23 Orchestra Plays On
- 10/23 Anna Larsson – Oxford lieder festival
- 10/19 Bartók's string quartets - Takács Quartet
- 10/10 A giant of the art
- 10/04 Petrenko – review
- 09/28 Paul Lewis – review
- 09/21 Maestro’s Injury Ignites Chaos
- 09/17 Janácek - Prokofiev - Ravel
- 09/12 Cigala & Tango – review
- 09/08 Lighter, Smaller Mahler
- 09/06 James Levine Withdraws From Met Fall Season
- 09/05 Tenor Salvatore Licitra dies in Sicily
- 08/30 Michael Gordon's
'Timber'
- 08/28 Mostly Mozart’s End, and Unfinished Works
- 08/25 Heart of a Soldier
- 08/24 Liszt: Harmonies du Soir
WCPE Features: Great Sacred Music
Tune in every Sunday morning for over 3 hours of inspirational music! Starting at 7:30 it's Sing for Joy, followed by Great Sacred Music at 8am (Eastern).
Sundays at 7:30am (Eastern)
Wake up to the inspiring music with Sing for Joy, featuring choral music from around the nation.
Every week Sing for Joy is heard on over 250 radio stations nationwide. A defining trait of Sing For Joy is basing each week's music on the scriptural lessons specified in the common lectionary. Visit the Sing for Joy website.
Sundays from 8am-11am (Eastern)
Beautiful and inspirational music from WCPE, with your host Rob Kennedy.
“For Bach all music is sacred. The tones do not die but ascend to God as praise too deep for utterance.” — from Bach by Albert Schweitzer
Winter Highlights:
December 4 —
On this second Sunday in Advent, we shall feature
carols and anthems written for Advent as well as
Bach’s Cantata 140, Sleepers Awake!
December 11 —
The Song of Mary or Magnificat has been set to
music by countless composers. We shall sample
settings by Bach, Stanford, and Howells.
December 18 —
Part I of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah
is the centerpiece of our last show before
Christmas.
December 25 —
Our Christmas Day edition of Great Sacred Music
begins with lullabies and cradle songs for the
child born in a lowly stable. We conclude with the
angels’ song: “Glory to God in the highest and
peace on earth, goodwill towards all.”
January 1 —
Our first playlist of 2012 features a performance
of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Greg Funfgeld conducts the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.
January 8 —
The monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz are famous for
their singing of Gregorian chant. Their CDs have
topped the charts worldwide.
January 15 —
The twelfth-century abbess Hildegard von Bingen
first saw visions at age 3. Her Symphonia Armoniae
Celestium Revelationum is full of soaring,ecstatic melodies.
January 22 —
Most of the composers from the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries seem to have a common
name: “Anonymous.” One composer does have a
name and that is Pérotin the Great. He and his
anonymous colleagues of the Notre Dame school
developed the music form we know as polyphony,
literally “many voices.”
January 29 —
The Codex Calixtinus is a famous manuscript
found in the Cathedral of Santiago in Compostela,
Spain. Anonymous 4 sings selections from that
twelfth-century collection on their CD entitled
Miracles of Sant’Iago.
February 5 —
Renaissance polyphony reaches its peak with the
music of Giovanni Luigi da Palestrina. His sixvoice
Missa Papae Marcelli is a superb example
of the composer’s genius.
February 12 —
In England, William Byrd took polyphony to new
heights with finely wrought music such as his
motet Tribue Domine.
February 19 —
In 1617, the Duke of Lerma hosted the King of
Spain. Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort
and Players recreate the lavish music which the
Duke staged for his royal patron.
February 26 —
The right-hand bookend for our review of music
from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance is
music of the Venetian School. Musical treasures
by Willaert, Merula, and Gabrieli will delight you
on this last Great Sacred Music for winter 2012.
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